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Patient Comfort Systems has rolled out new positioner pads compatible with various modalities, including PET and nuclear medicine. The pads are meant to make patients more comfortable when undergoing procedures, as well as prevent the spread of infections from drug-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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Veterans Affairs hospitals use a "MRSA bundle" to reduce drug-resistant infections that includes swabbing the inside of patients' noses to see if they already carry methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Such policies have helped reduce hospital-acquired MRSA infections in VA hospital ICUs by 62%.

Pets, like their human owners, are at risk for infection by drug-resistant bacteria such as salmonella and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. A plan recently unveiled by the Food and Drug Administration aims to keep the food supply safe and to bolster its efforts to protect human and animal health against antibiotic resistant strains.

The House in Washington has approved a bill mandating that hospitals in the state create a system to identify patients with drug-resistant staph infections. The state Senate also cleared a similar bill that would require all hospitals to test all patients entering and leaving intensive care units for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

The House in Washington has approved a bill mandating that hospitals in the state create a system to identify patients with drug-resistant staph infections. The state Senate also cleared a similar bill that would require all hospitals to test all patients entering and leaving intensive care units for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

U.S. scientists developed a bioengineered version of a bacteriophage, a type of virus that can infect bacteria, that they said could prevent bacteria from becoming tolerant to antibiotics. It might also kill drug-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The genetically altered virus works by attacking defense systems used by bacteria when exposed to antibiotics.